Fastener.



E. FJPRIDDAT.

PATENTED JUNE 14, 1904.

FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 12, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented June 14, 1904.

ERNST F. PRIDDAT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,599,dated June 14, 1904.

Application filed August 12, 1903. Serial No. 169,288. (No model.)

To all, whom it may cancer-m.

Be it known that I, ERNs'r F. PRIDDAT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago,

in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of flexiblesheet-metal fasteners employed for clamping intersecting wires, cord,and the like at the points of intersection, as wire fences, cord-tiedpackages, and the 1 re.

On cord-tied packages where the cord (including twine and string) iscrossed upon itself at different points when any pains are taken to forma fastening at a point of intersection this is commonly done by loopingthe free end of the cord about the section thereof it is caused to crossand sometimes by knotting it at each intersection. It is the experienceof those who thus pack goods for shipment that the cord used for tying apackage breaks at the intersections, with the effect of undoing thepackage before delivery, unless the cord be knotted at theintersections, and the knotting operation is not commonly resorted tobecause of the trouble it incurs and the time it consumes. In the caseof wire fence it is objectionable to twist the wires together at theintersections because of the work involved and of the tendency thatresults from the twisting of weakening the wires.

The object of my invention is to provide as a means for conveniently,cheaply, securely, and expeditiously fastening the cord or wires at theintersections a novel construction of flexible sheetmetal clamp whichshall be cheap to manufacture, convenient of application, and peculiarlyeffective in its purpose.

The manner of using my improvement is the same whether it be applied toa cord-tied package or to fence-wires; but for the purposes ofillustration it is shown in the firstnamed connection in theaccompanying drawings, to which reference is had.

Figure 1 is aperspective view ofacorol-tied package having my improvedfastener applied to the cord intersection for securing it; Fig. 2, asimilar view showing by way of diagram one side of the body and tworelatively separated jaws 6, formed on an adjacent edge at right anglesto the jaw b and open on the opposite side of the body, and itssurfaces, which embrace the cord-sections at the intersection m, arerepresented as roughened by providing them with numerous points thebetter to clench them upon the cord. The fastener is more particularlydesigned for application to a looped section of the cord; but it is alsoapplicable to an intersection which is not looped.

To apply the fastener, the jaws b are first introduced under the cord tostraddle the loop into the initial position represented in Fig. 2, whenthe device is turned over on the engaged cord-section as a fulcrum intothe position represented in Fig. 1, whereby the loop is somewhatstrained with the advantage of tautening it, and the jaw-6 is thereuponengaged with the cord-section adjacent to it, when the jaws are clenchedto fasten them.

While the foregoing description is restricted to flexible sheet metal asthe material out of which to form my improved fastener and though thatparticular material is preferred, it may without departure from myinvention be formed out of any other suitable material.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a flexible sheet-metal fastener for theintersections of cord, wire, and the like, comprising a body portionhaving a jaw open at one side ofthe body portion and two jaws, spacedapart, at a right angle to said jaw, open at the opposite side of saidbody portion.

ERNST F. PRIDDA'I.

In presence of I/VALTER N. WINBERG, W. B. DAVIES.

